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...also rated a world-record auction price. With the bid at $35,000 (already past the previous record high of $31,000), Johnson gunned the engine; with the throaty 56-h.p. roar, the bidding shot to $40,000, did not stop until it reached...
...world-record 2 min. 9.7 sec.-while the old recordholder, California's Pokey Watson, straggled in fifth. For beauty, there was Florida's lissome, blonde Catie Ball, 15, who set world marks in both the 100meter and 200-meter breaststroke. And for versatility, there was California's tousle-haired Claudia Kolb, 17, who 1) won the 400-meter individual medley in world-record time, 2) set a second record in the 200-meter medley, 3) swam the breaststroke leg for the Santa Clara Swim Club's victorious 400-meter med ley relay team, and 4) anchored...
...Great British Train Robbery is neither great nor British. It is, however, a robbery-by the Germans, of an idea that could have made an excellent picture. The film dramatizes the 1963 hold up of a Royal Mail 'train from which a gang of crooks heisted a world-record $7,000,000, most of it still unrecovered...
...seems that sophomore butterflyer Ross Wales swam his 100-yard leg of a recent medley relay in world-record time of 49.1 seconds...
Landry, "just fast enough to get over the goal line"-and has already scored 14 TDs this season. To catch Meredith's passes, they have Flanker Gent, a 6-ft. 4-in. jumping jack, and Split End Bob Hayes, the world-record holder (at 9.1 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash...